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diff --git a/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.0.txt b/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fb5222 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/RelNotes/v1.46.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +E2fsprogs 1.46.0 (January 29, 2021) +=================================== + +Updates/Fixes since v1.45.7: + +UI and Features +--------------- + +E2fsprogs now supports the fast_commit (COMPAT_FAST_COMMIT) feature. +This feature, first available in Linux version 5.10, adds a fine-grained +journalling which improves the latency of the fsync(2) system call. It +should also improve the performance of ext4 file systems exported via +NFS. + +E2fsprogs now supports the stable_inodes (COMPAT_STABLE_INODES) feature. +This needed to support fscrypt siphash algorithm, which calculates the +initial vector (IV) for encryption based on the UUID and the inode +number. This means that we can't renumber inodes (for example, when +shrinking a file system) and the UUID can't be changed without breaking +the ability to decrypt the encryption. + +E2fsprogs now supports file systems which have both file system +encryption and the casefold feature enabled. This is used in some +Android handsets, but has not yet landed upstream yet. + +E2fsck now will check file names on file systems with case folding +enabled to make sure the characters are valid UTF-8 characters. This is +done for file systems which enforce strict encodings, and optionally if +the extended "check_encoding" option is requested. + +The fuse2fs program now supports the "-o norecovery" option, which will +suppress any journal replay that might be necessary, and mounts the file +system read-only. + +E2fsck will now find and fix file system corruptions when the encrypted +files have a different policy from their containing directory. + +The "htree" command in debugfs now displays the metadata checksums for +hash tree index blocks. + +Dumpe2fs will print the error code that Linux kernels newer than v5.6 +will save to indicate the class of error which triggered the ext4_error +event. + +E2fsprogs programs (in particular, fuse2fs) can now update htree +directories without clearing the htree index. + +Mke2fs now sets the s_overhead_cluster field, so that the kernel doesn't +need to calculate it at mount time. This speeds up mounting very large +file systems. + + +Fixes +----- + +E2fsck will properly handle checking for duplicated file names when case +folding is enabled. + +Fix various bugs where a maliciously corrupted file systems could case +e2fsck and other e2fsprogs programs to crash. + +Tune2fs will properly recalculate directory block checksums when +clearing the dir_index feature. + +Fix a bug in e2fsck directory rehashing which could fail with ENOSPC +because it doesn't take into account the space needed for the metadata +checksum, and doesn't create a sufficiently deep index tree. + +Clarify the e2fsck messages when it resets the directory link count when +it is set to the overflow value but it is no longer needed. + +The filefrag program can now request the kernel to display the extent +status cache by using "filefrag -E". (This requires Linux version 5.4 +or newer.) + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +Speed up mke2fs when creating large bigalloc file systems by optimizing +ext2fs_convert_subcluster_bitmap(). + +Bitmap blocks are now read using multiple threads (for systems with +pthread support). This speeds up dumpe2fs, e2fsck, and debugfs for very +large file systems. + +The dumpe2fs and tune2fs will now avoiding to read the block group +descriptors when they are not needed, which speeds up these program when +operating on very large file systems. + +Drop use of the sysctl(2) system call, which is deprecated in Linux. + +Add support for "configure --enable-developer-features" which enables +features only meant for developer. The first such feature is "e2fsck -E +clear_all_uninit_bits", which clears the uninitialized bit on all +extents for all inodes. Note that this can end up exposing uninitialized +data to userspace, and should only used in very specialized situations. + +The e2fsck/revoke.c and e2fsck/recovery.c files are now kept idential +with the fs/jbd2 versions of these files in the kernel. + +Fix various compiler and Coverity warnings. + +Update to use gettext 0.19.8. This also removes the built-in "intl" +directory as this is now considered deprecated by gettext. This means +that if the system doesn't have gettext installed on the build system, +we will simply disable NLS support. + |